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This anti-DeSantis ad might just encourage people to move to Florida.

By Justin Katz | September 30, 2021 |

Horror of horrors!  They have a clip of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis actually saying that people should be able to make their own decisions! The imagery is especially laughable given that, as I noted earlier, crime has fallen below the national rate in Florida under DeSantis’s leadership. Stop what you are doing and watch…

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As progressives rally to take “the whole F!@#$%^ State House,” RI must consider the consequences.

By Justin Katz | September 29, 2021 |

You can insist it’s immoral or simply scoff as if these folks don’t count, but this is simply the sort of thing that happens when radicals seize control: A potential lurch to the left in Germany’s election on Sunday is scaring millionaires into moving assets into Switzerland, bankers and tax lawyers say. If the center-left…

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Terry McAuliffe summarizes Democrats’ view of parents and education

By Justin Katz | September 29, 2021 |

The Democrat candidate for Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe (who is the former governor and a long-time Democrat Party insider going back to the Bill Clinton White House) said the quiet part out loud during a recent debate: I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own…

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Extending the Holocaust analogy provides a helpful framework for survival.

By Justin Katz | September 29, 2021 |

Related to the controversy in North Smithfield over analogizing between mask mandates and the Holocaust, well-known conservative and Jewish writer Dennis Prager’s latest column is titled, “Who Would Hide a Jew If Nazis Took Over America?“: So, then, here are two questions for American Jews to ponder: If a Nazi-like doctrine took over America, and…

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Here’s some good news about lasting effects of COVID on the young.

By Justin Katz | September 28, 2021 |

Lung-function appears to be fully recovered in minors: In one [study], Swedish researchers found that even asthma patients had no significant impairment in lung function. In the other, German researchers found unimpaired lung function after kids and teens had a COVID-19 infection — unless their infection was severe. “The COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about…

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The heckling of the elite seems to be picking up.

By Justin Katz | September 28, 2021 |

It seems we’re seeing increasing numbers of videos of the progressive elite being heckled by bystanders, such as this one of a pompously garbed Hillary Clinton being called a “war criminal” in Northern Ireland as a retro-garbed child carries the trail of her gown (or cape, or whatever). Two thoughts.  First: but for social media,…

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So now we’ve got military incursions on our southern border?

By Justin Katz | September 28, 2021 |

It’s hard not to see something more behind this incident: 14 soldiers with the Mexican military were apprehended by U.S. federal law enforcement officials during the early morning hours on Saturday after they crossed over onto U.S. soil, according to a report. … “CBP said the soldiers, their weapons and equipment ‘were secured for safety…

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The snobbery and conformity of our educated class

By Justin Katz | September 27, 2021 |

Via Instapundit, when did Matthew Yglesias become a voice of sanity? He writes: … if all the people with degrees are on the same side of certain big moral and political questions, it’s going to be very hard for them to draw the line between actual expert knowledge and beliefs they happen to hold. Perhaps the…

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If kids really believe the climate alarmism garbage…

By Justin Katz | September 27, 2021 |

… why are they investing so much time and money in college?  Stephen Green says his conversations with kids doesn’t match the global survey claim that 56% of the young are “very worried or extremely worried” about the climate.  Some portion of them are probably just reacting to the tendency to answer a question in…

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Crazy federal spending is how the Left pays its activists.

By Justin Katz | September 27, 2021 |

Nancy Pelosi is swearing that the Democrats’ insanely expensive quasi-infrastructure infrastructure bill will pass this week.  Every time I see these numbers, I remember something I learned during the Obama presidency.  This is how the Left funds its movement — not only union workers but progressive non-profits and others, filtering down to the street level.…